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KMID : 0379919850100010039
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Journal of The Korea Socity of Health Informatics and Statistics
1985 Volume.10 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.44
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Studies of Obesity Indices on Height and Weight Relationship
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Song Hae-Hiang
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Abstract
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The ponderal and body mass index are the most frequently used, simple measures of relative body weight, when height and weight alone being provided. The question of the best index gas baffled the researchers for a long time. It is shown that the examination of the simple and partial correlation coefficients does not help us choose the best index between the ponderal and body mass index. However, the difference between the ponderal and body mass index are apparent in Figure 3.
An analysis of a sample data demonstrates that the ponderal index if the poorer one th fit to the standard height-weight curve (or to the upper 10th percentile curve). The body mass index curves give a better fit and an improvement of the fit can be attained by insisting that weight be related to height by a power of less than 2.0. For our sample data the standard height-weight curve (or toe upper 10th percentile curve) fits best to a series of curves of Weight/Height^1.8.
This report deals exclusively with the data of men. There is a pressing nee d for the accumulation of the standard height-weight pattern for different sex, age and population.
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